Word: departmenters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coming as it did at a time when most of Harvard was dazed by the sudden ending of the tenure of ten popular assistant professors, Professor Burbank's resignation last spring as chairman of the Economics department lent itself too easily to interpretation as a protest against the Administration's...
Seven department and two divisional chairmanships have changed hands as College opens this fall, in one of the largest administrative turn-overs in recent years. Also to become effective this year is the discontinuance of two divisions.
With the exception of Professor Burbank's resignation, none of the changes were understood to have been caused by disapproval of the University's method of appointment and dismissal. Succeeding Professor Burbank as Chairman of the Economics department is Professor Chamberlin, who is still in Europe.
Apart from the matters of emphasis Mr. Ross's article can be taken as expressing opinions widely held in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Members of the Faculty naturally feel special apprehension over matters directly involving their responsibility to the future of the University as a whole--all the...
It should be recognized that this action is but a partial cure for the evils now prevalent in the method of faculty promotion. The reorganization of this office is, in fact, but one of the many suggestions the Report made in an effort to remove the feeling among younger instructors...